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Memorable lines from Oscars' 2014 best-picture nominees

In the year's top pictures, some dialog is destined to live on

Adepero Oduye, left, as Eliza and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup in a scene from '12 Years a Slave,' which has garnered multiple Oscar nominations.(Photo: Jaap Buitendijk Fox Searchlight Pictures)

The Academy Awards are renowned for great acceptance speeches, but actors couldn't thank the academy without reading great lines from films first. USA TODAY's Scott Bowles offers some of the memorable dialog from this year's best-picture nominees leading up to Sunday's Oscars.

"I'm different from you. That doesn't make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you even more."

— Samantha (Scarlett Johansson)

"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel, and from here on out I'm not gonna feel anything now. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt."

— Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix)

'Nebraska' led to Oscar nominations for lead actor Bruce Dern and supporting actress June Squibb, as well as a re-estimation of 'SNL' alumnus Will Forte.(Photo: Paramount Pictures)

'Nebraska'

"Have a drink with your old man. Be somebody!"

— Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)

Will: "So, you told the sheriff that you were walking to Nebraska?"Woody: "That's right. To get my million dollars."

— David Grant (Will Forte) talking with father Woody.

Judi Dench received a best-actress nod and co-star Steve Coogan was nominated in the best adapted screenplay category for their work in best-picture nominee "Philomena."(Photo: Alex Bailey, The Weinstein Company)

'Philomena'

"I'd like to know if Anthony ever thought of me."— Philomena (Judi Dench)

"I did not abandon my child. He was taken away from me."

— Philomena

Best actor: Leonardo DiCaprio dominates "The Wolf of Wall Street" in his role as real-life conniving stockbroker Jordan Belfort.(Photo: Mary Cybulski, Paramount Pictures)

The Wolf of Wall Street

"My Name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made $49 million, which really (expletive) me off, because it was three shy of a million a week."